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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

James Esses report on Ireland's Self ID

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ArabellaScott · 05/01/2023 21:08

An overview of Ireland's gender reform from James Esses.

'In 2021, a poll showed that just 17 per cent agreed with Ireland’s gender-recognition law as it stands.'
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'Following the 2015 Act, a ‘review group’ was set up by the Irish government to review the legislation and to propose future amendments. The group’s recommendations are extremely troubling.

It recommends extending ‘self-ID’ to children aged 16 and 17. It has also recommended extending the above provisions to those who seek to identify as ‘nonbinary’, something which will further dilute sex-based rights. Work is already underway in the Irish parliament to formally draft these proposed legal changes.

Most worrying of all is the review group’s proposal that ‘a system of gender recognition should be introduced for children of any age’. This means toddlers could transition in the near future. The review group even recommends introducing a legal process to ‘address cases where there is not consent from both parents or it is not possible or safe to obtain [the] same’. In other words, parents who do not want their children to legally change their sex are considered a problem for the Irish state to ‘address’.'

www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/05/irelands-dangerous-experiment-in-self-id/

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ArabellaScott · 05/01/2023 22:42

Right, extreme content warning for this article on probationer's report, describing Kardashian's threats to his mother.

www.thejournal.ie/barbie-kardashian-trial-5758736-May2022/

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waterwitch · 06/01/2023 06:15

I imagine I know the answer, but it seems pertinent. 83% of the Irish (adult?) population don’t agree with the existing law. Do we know what % think it needs to be changed to reduce/remove access to self-id rather than increase it? This would be an important response from a society’s lived experience.

Assuming most of the 83% don’t want this extended, I wonder how far does it have to go before it reaches a political tipping point?

PriOn1 · 06/01/2023 06:26

I agree with your placement of ‘review group’ in quotation marks. It doesn’t sound like they are reviewing anything, merely pushing forward the standard transactivist protocols.

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